{"id":71436,"date":"2025-05-01T21:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/may\/01\/mps-urge-david-lammy-intervene-british-man-jail-india-jagtar-singh-johal"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:59:04","slug":"mps-urge-david-lammy-to-intervene-as-british-man-remains-in-jail-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71436","title":{"rendered":"MPs urge David Lammy to intervene as British man remains in jail in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jagtar Singh Johal\u2019s hopes of being freed on bail have been dashed for now despite being cleared of charges in one case<\/p>\n<p>Hopes that Jagtar Singh Johal, a British Sikh man held in an Indian jail for seven years, would be released on bail were dashed on Thursday when his case was deferred by the Indian supreme court possibly until after the summer, prompting calls from MPs for the UK to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign secretary, David Lammy, is due to meet Johal\u2019s brother again next week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/may\/01\/mps-urge-david-lammy-intervene-british-man-jail-india-jagtar-singh-johal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jagtar Singh Johal\u2019s hopes of being freed on bail have been dashed for now despite being cleared of charges in one caseHopes that Jagtar Singh Johal, a British Sikh man held in an Indian jail for seven years, would be released on bail were dashed on Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2675,319,62,4,561,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-lammy","category-foreign-policy","category-india","category-politics","category-scotland","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71437,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71436\/revisions\/71437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}